Homer - The Odyssey - Richmond Lattimore
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007
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Excerpts:
- 1.1:
Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways,
who was driven far journeys, after he had
sacked Troy’s sacred citadel. Many were
they whose cities he saw, whose minds he
learned of, many the pains he suffered in
his spirit on the wide sea, struggling for
his own life and the homecoming of his
companions. Even so he could not save
his companions, hard though he strove
to; they were destroyed by their own
wild recklessness, fools, who devoured
the oxen of Helios, the Sun God, and
he took away the day of their
homecoming. From some point here,
goddess, daughter of Zeus, speak, and
begin our story.